Harp, Could be wrong but I think the Prairie Bell was a fictional steamboat in the poem "Jim Bledsoe". Some folks do sing it. (Dave Para & Cathy Barton out o' Boonville, Missouri--right on thre Missouri River.) They sing on the Delta Queen sometimes.

Could you be meaning the Bayou Sara? I've seen photos of that boat but not photos of it burning. It did burn though.

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